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6.18.2007

cluck cluck clap clap

another interesting character from the party at the Lamont Collective was Carlos...

Carlos was a tad tough to readnot sure where he was coming from or where he was headedwe talked for a few minutes in the kitchen it was a short conversation as Carlos is single and male Carlos being single and male was looking for something single and femalea search I understand... even if I am old, married, and no longer involved in the huntCarlos slowed from his hunt to entertain me for a few minutes

in this kitchen conversation we talked as I poured myself a drinkthe topic of kids came up as a third party in our conversation had heard that I had two kidsto which I learned that Carlos is also a fatherit was hard to read and hard to understandCarlos seemed to be telling the truth.... but he also seemed to have a hint of sarcasimwhich had me thinking that he was "f_cking with me"yet I played it straight as if he were giving me the straight talk

in this conversation Carlos did most of the talkingin lots of conversations one person talks and another person listensI have a bad habit of talking and not listeningin this situaiton... it was Carlos who was prone to more output than inputin this diatribe about parents, life, kids, and the approach of father's day I listened as Carlos told me about his sonhe really did not tell me much about his sonother than where he went to school and the grade he is enteringwhile the school was a definite the facts on the grade were a tad blurredthen there was the name of his son... a name that was more action than wordstwo clucks of the tongue and two claps of the hand that is righthis son's name was "cluck cluck clap clap"written on the birth certificate the way it sounds; cluck cluck clap clapwith nicknames of "clap clap" or "cc" to make phone conversations more fluidas it would be annoying to have to put the phone down each time you want to use direct address

it was all very interestingCarlos rolled his eye as I brought up "the boy named sue" referencethen the eyebrows raised as he learned that johnny cash was not the author of this famous songbut rather shel silversteinthe conversation continuedsome talk of father's dayexplanation of getting married and having kids too youngthen a parting of the waybefore we parted I asked Carlos if he was in fact just "f_cking with me"he was nothe did in fact name is son cluck cluck clap clap

Carlos felt that his son hated him for the name that he gave himI tried to assure him that his son certainly had better reasons to hate his father than his nameI hope that Carlos saw his son on father's day

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